@Magpie31 - my new year’s resolution will be to get my friends list manageable again, which may mean more deletions (assuming the game-makers continue to ignore our pleas to increase the daily limit on opening giftboxes) ... but can’t bear to do that at christmas-time. my list is at 75 right now. i marvel at the discipline it takes to stay near 12 for so long.
@kiheikid Honestly, I feel slightly sick about the number of people on there. I have gone from 12 to 43 overnight - everyone is desperate for friends for the gifting for the brilliant event.
At the moment, I am accepting all requests, as I know they are mainly due to people needing to do event tasks. I will cut people I have not interacted with on the forum after the event, probably. There are always a couple of exceptions, but I just prefer the smaller list. That way, I don't need to worry about the permafrost layer of gifts etc.
@kiheikid In some ways, I am okay with the limit. If you think about it, a person could open ten extravagant gifts each day, for a total of 5000 xp. With BBE, that becomes 10,000 xp (or 15k on a CD). That is a huge advantage to have. If the cap was raised or became unlimited to one gift from each friend, that could then mean 200 x 500, which is a maximum of 100,000 xp per day, then doubled with BBE. It would open up the system to too much abuse and too large a gap.
@Magpie31 and @kiheikid sorry to jump on (I’m new on the forum) i do agree with you guys regarding the gifting it would be really good if they could take on the feedback and increase the number of gifts you could open daily. Personally I’d like to see some form
of in game chat, of the number of people on my list I only know 3 however as I’m more or less a solo player I don’t mind having people on my list to send gifts to proving that it’s reciprocated I’m not expecting daily gifts lord knows I can’t open them all but I really do feel that it’s one ended 🤷🏽♀️ I dunno I love the gifting as I burn through energy at work but have nowhere to restock but it has its own issues ...
At the start of the new year I too will be slimming my list down to something more manageable so I can send out (hopefully) more quality gifts. I don't mind sending something plain if the postcard is good, but my local inn postcard is meh and the stress I'm holding on to over a small piece of a game is not worth it. I hate that it takes me 11-12 days to get through my list and I can't manage to get good gifts out to everyone every day. *grumble, grumble, wah wah* wow I woke up grumpy!
edited December 2019#6819 December, 2019, 05:24 pm.
I am new to this board and I have a friends/gifts/sent/opened question. My friends list shows that no one has opened the gifts I have sent. I personally know 3 of my friends and they say they have opened them, but I still show that they are unopened, thus I can no longer send gifts.
I have downloaded the most recent assets, I have logged out and back in, I have tried removing and adding one of the friends I know personally and nothing seems to work.
Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution?
suggestion/advice (IF you feel comfortable doing this):
start to engage more in discussions on this board, not only generally by posting replies or starting your own threads (someone else could reply to yours), but also specifically with individuals of your choosing by tagging their names - ie, use the “at sign” @ in front of their name without a space in between. that should bring up the name or names and you click or tap on the one you intended. now you have created a tagged name (with different colored font than regular text) and that person should get a notification he/she has been tagged.
doing this might become the start of regular correspondence with someone else on this forum. depending on the subject and tone of such correspondence, that person could become a new person on your friend list (just share friend code and see if you get an invite) or an even better friend if already on your friend list.
now what?
if you have a forum rapport via conversations directly with certain tagged persons on your friend list, i suspect that might increase the chances of (a) your giftboxes to those persons being opened by them earlier and/or more often, because you might no longer be just a random name on their friend list, and vice versa, as well as (b) getting “better” giftboxes that you might enjoy more, if you have shared what category you prefer
not a guarantee, of course, that this all will work ... but it is how some real life friendships start and could apply to these in-game/in-form friendships too
I have frequent gift exchanges with many of the people on my friends list and every one of them (including my family) have been marked as sent and unopened on their end. They say that they have opened them, but it does not show up on my friends list, so I cannot send them another gift. They can send me gifts but I do not see that they opened mine. This just started a couple of days ago.
@Ashara10 if it does not re-set (from “sent” to “send gift”) at 12:01am even after your giftbox was already opened by your friend, then it might be a bug that should be reported ... i think there also is a limit on how often the same person can open successive giftboxes from you (1 per 24 hour cycle restarting at 12:01am)
From your comment it looks like this is a bug. It has been several days since I sent a gift to my family, and even though they have 'opened' them, it has not reset.
first, in the app, inside your suitcase, at top left corner, you will see the gear/wheels. tap that. at bottom right is the help/legal tab. tap that. under support, you will see report-a-bug. it is a bot. make your report (and i would suggest writing it elsewhere first and then copying & pasting that into this part with the bot.
second, go to the report-a-bug section of this forum, start a new thread, again copy & paste your bug report there, AND tag @ hpwulola (without the space in between) because she is most responsive (and our queen)
@kiheikid yep this is what I’m also thinking trying to get on the forum more because as I said I do have people on my list that have added me that I don’t know and since giving my code to someone a few days ago I’ve gone from a manageable 30 to nearly 100 🤦🏽♀️ I do gift daily and I send what I have. I do find ingredient gifts pointless and try to avoid sending them but that’s it I think they’re pointless but I don’t know if the other player finds it useful and I’d rather send gifts I know they need. Will monitor my list and whittle down as I regularly do and continue to try to get to know people on the forum. 😊
@HKR84 I think i have u recently added to my friends list?
Im similar to how @Bormacska 's thinking in how it was so wonderfully put lol, that i try to send the best gifts i can to the people i know well, but also I try to reciprocate in kind if a new friend has sent me an extravagant then il try to get one back to them asap.
But it really is hard when your friends list is nearing 100, and only being able to open 10 is the worst, its taking forever to get down the list then start again- but then u feel u should prioritise your friends you know well- and its all just aaarrgghh!! Lol.
But ive had a few days this week not being able to get out for gifts which compounds the problem. And as Bormacska says if its an ordinary one u feel its not worth sending sometimes unless its a nice postcard- which if anyone else lives in Preston could confirm there defo arent here!! Lol. Soooo grey & boring!!
Aaaanyway, nice to meet ya!!! And hope u hang around on forum get chatting cos there are always posts that make me chuckle every day & cheer me up 😀
@Magpie31 yeh Prestonian born & bred- still here lol. They'd back me up right!!? It is pretty grey & boring!? Lol. No wonderful murals or great statues etc for the postcards. There might be about 3 I've seen that are vaguely interesting since gifting started- but most are just the post office, pub, or shop sign lol. Not very inspiring!
@AuroraKadavra Never mind them, I have spent enough time in Preston to back you up! It is pretty out in the surrounding villages, but not many POIs. And, like you say, tends to be the pub or post office.
Lol @Magpie31 - so glad u could concur! It's not just me being sick of seeing it- Preston really does need to get its act together in having some colour & art, culture, sculptures....anything to brighten this lil ol town! Sorry.. City! Pfft! Lol.
@AuroraKadavra haha yes I did I saw you’re code on another conversation 🙈 and yes I noticed you were from Preston I’ve been there once I think 🤔. Grey and boring ... I can’t remember what Preston was like I would have been there when my dad was doing markets so a number of years ago and with regards to grey I think that’s just the UK in general now that winter has settled in with our usual rain. I didn’t even get a chance to go out properly yesterday because it was coming down so bad! When I added you I have 30 friends and then enough to send gifts to daily, I left my code for someone and I’m now nearing 100 🙈🤦🏽♀️ I can’t get through the list my gifts are sitting at empty (hoping to sort that today) and I’m a bit frazzled about what to do because the requests keep coming... need to find the post I put my code on and remove it maybe I dunno this 10 gift limit is now causing me big issues. 🥴
@HKR84 I have exactly the same issue. I left my code to help someone and am now drowning a bit. But I am going to just delete all but people I interact with as soon as the brilliant event is over, as that was the deal I made. Then I will change my code and just point people to the friend code section of the forum in future!
@Yohanes12 Sorry, I really don't understand your post. Are you saying we don't have a safe system? As I see it, we already have plenty of safety in the friend request feature. We have to accept the requests, there is no in-game communication, all personal information - even portrait - is protected and unviewable by others. The friend code itself is a safety feature as, when used as it is intended, it is something you exchange in person. People can only get it when you share, and then it is easily changed if you want to. Given all the safety features built in to the friending system, changing the code is simply a convenience, rather than a good idea for safety.
Not necessarily naive. I have posted my friend code before and only had one or two invitations. I think the difference is that we have two evemts requiring multiple gifts to be given. I just feel bad that due to the flurry of requests, I can't open the gifts being sent. But giving them chance to send one is better than nothing.
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@Magpie31 - my new year’s resolution will be to get my friends list manageable again, which may mean more deletions (assuming the game-makers continue to ignore our pleas to increase the daily limit on opening giftboxes) ... but can’t bear to do that at christmas-time. my list is at 75 right now. i marvel at the discipline it takes to stay near 12 for so long.
@kiheikid Honestly, I feel slightly sick about the number of people on there. I have gone from 12 to 43 overnight - everyone is desperate for friends for the gifting for the brilliant event.
At the moment, I am accepting all requests, as I know they are mainly due to people needing to do event tasks. I will cut people I have not interacted with on the forum after the event, probably. There are always a couple of exceptions, but I just prefer the smaller list. That way, I don't need to worry about the permafrost layer of gifts etc.
@Magpie31 - i hear ya! but we’re in the same choir.
too bad @HPWUTeam does not hear us. you would think they could at least publicly announce either
“we hear you and we are working on it” (ie, raising daily limit of giftboxes that can be opened)
- OR -
“we really don’t give a ...”
rather than maintain this radio silence.
@kiheikid In some ways, I am okay with the limit. If you think about it, a person could open ten extravagant gifts each day, for a total of 5000 xp. With BBE, that becomes 10,000 xp (or 15k on a CD). That is a huge advantage to have. If the cap was raised or became unlimited to one gift from each friend, that could then mean 200 x 500, which is a maximum of 100,000 xp per day, then doubled with BBE. It would open up the system to too much abuse and too large a gap.
@Magpie31 and @kiheikid sorry to jump on (I’m new on the forum) i do agree with you guys regarding the gifting it would be really good if they could take on the feedback and increase the number of gifts you could open daily. Personally I’d like to see some form
of in game chat, of the number of people on my list I only know 3 however as I’m more or less a solo player I don’t mind having people on my list to send gifts to proving that it’s reciprocated I’m not expecting daily gifts lord knows I can’t open them all but I really do feel that it’s one ended 🤷🏽♀️ I dunno I love the gifting as I burn through energy at work but have nowhere to restock but it has its own issues ...
At the start of the new year I too will be slimming my list down to something more manageable so I can send out (hopefully) more quality gifts. I don't mind sending something plain if the postcard is good, but my local inn postcard is meh and the stress I'm holding on to over a small piece of a game is not worth it. I hate that it takes me 11-12 days to get through my list and I can't manage to get good gifts out to everyone every day. *grumble, grumble, wah wah* wow I woke up grumpy!
I am new to this board and I have a friends/gifts/sent/opened question. My friends list shows that no one has opened the gifts I have sent. I personally know 3 of my friends and they say they have opened them, but I still show that they are unopened, thus I can no longer send gifts.
I have downloaded the most recent assets, I have logged out and back in, I have tried removing and adding one of the friends I know personally and nothing seems to work.
Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution?
suggestion/advice (IF you feel comfortable doing this):
start to engage more in discussions on this board, not only generally by posting replies or starting your own threads (someone else could reply to yours), but also specifically with individuals of your choosing by tagging their names - ie, use the “at sign” @ in front of their name without a space in between. that should bring up the name or names and you click or tap on the one you intended. now you have created a tagged name (with different colored font than regular text) and that person should get a notification he/she has been tagged.
examples of tagged names: @HKR84 @Ashara10 @Bormacska @Magpie31
why?
doing this might become the start of regular correspondence with someone else on this forum. depending on the subject and tone of such correspondence, that person could become a new person on your friend list (just share friend code and see if you get an invite) or an even better friend if already on your friend list.
now what?
if you have a forum rapport via conversations directly with certain tagged persons on your friend list, i suspect that might increase the chances of (a) your giftboxes to those persons being opened by them earlier and/or more often, because you might no longer be just a random name on their friend list, and vice versa, as well as (b) getting “better” giftboxes that you might enjoy more, if you have shared what category you prefer
not a guarantee, of course, that this all will work ... but it is how some real life friendships start and could apply to these in-game/in-form friendships too
good luck, and happy hunting
Thank you for the suggestion.
I have frequent gift exchanges with many of the people on my friends list and every one of them (including my family) have been marked as sent and unopened on their end. They say that they have opened them, but it does not show up on my friends list, so I cannot send them another gift. They can send me gifts but I do not see that they opened mine. This just started a couple of days ago.
@Ashara10 if it does not re-set (from “sent” to “send gift”) at 12:01am even after your giftbox was already opened by your friend, then it might be a bug that should be reported ... i think there also is a limit on how often the same person can open successive giftboxes from you (1 per 24 hour cycle restarting at 12:01am)
From your comment it looks like this is a bug. It has been several days since I sent a gift to my family, and even though they have 'opened' them, it has not reset.
How might I report a bug?
@Ashara10 :
two ways (and you should do both).
first, in the app, inside your suitcase, at top left corner, you will see the gear/wheels. tap that. at bottom right is the help/legal tab. tap that. under support, you will see report-a-bug. it is a bot. make your report (and i would suggest writing it elsewhere first and then copying & pasting that into this part with the bot.
second, go to the report-a-bug section of this forum, start a new thread, again copy & paste your bug report there, AND tag @ hpwulola (without the space in between) because she is most responsive (and our queen)
good luck
Thank you very much, and I will do that now.
@kiheikid yep this is what I’m also thinking trying to get on the forum more because as I said I do have people on my list that have added me that I don’t know and since giving my code to someone a few days ago I’ve gone from a manageable 30 to nearly 100 🤦🏽♀️ I do gift daily and I send what I have. I do find ingredient gifts pointless and try to avoid sending them but that’s it I think they’re pointless but I don’t know if the other player finds it useful and I’d rather send gifts I know they need. Will monitor my list and whittle down as I regularly do and continue to try to get to know people on the forum. 😊
@HKR84 I think i have u recently added to my friends list?
Im similar to how @Bormacska 's thinking in how it was so wonderfully put lol, that i try to send the best gifts i can to the people i know well, but also I try to reciprocate in kind if a new friend has sent me an extravagant then il try to get one back to them asap.
But it really is hard when your friends list is nearing 100, and only being able to open 10 is the worst, its taking forever to get down the list then start again- but then u feel u should prioritise your friends you know well- and its all just aaarrgghh!! Lol.
But ive had a few days this week not being able to get out for gifts which compounds the problem. And as Bormacska says if its an ordinary one u feel its not worth sending sometimes unless its a nice postcard- which if anyone else lives in Preston could confirm there defo arent here!! Lol. Soooo grey & boring!!
Aaaanyway, nice to meet ya!!! And hope u hang around on forum get chatting cos there are always posts that make me chuckle every day & cheer me up 😀
@AuroraKadavra You're a Prestonian? My Dad comes from Preston and my grandparents and other relatives still live up there :)
@Magpie31 yeh Prestonian born & bred- still here lol. They'd back me up right!!? It is pretty grey & boring!? Lol. No wonderful murals or great statues etc for the postcards. There might be about 3 I've seen that are vaguely interesting since gifting started- but most are just the post office, pub, or shop sign lol. Not very inspiring!
Weather doesn't help-just......grey! Buildings.....grey, roads.....grey, poi's.....grey!! 😂😂
@AuroraKadavra Never mind them, I have spent enough time in Preston to back you up! It is pretty out in the surrounding villages, but not many POIs. And, like you say, tends to be the pub or post office.
Lol @Magpie31 - so glad u could concur! It's not just me being sick of seeing it- Preston really does need to get its act together in having some colour & art, culture, sculptures....anything to brighten this lil ol town! Sorry.. City! Pfft! Lol.
I think i need a holiday! 😂
@kiheikid "depending on subject and tone"
/slaps forehead
Thaaaat's why no one opens my gifts! I was starting to think my screen of grey sent gifts was a bug.
Actually my dazzling sarcasm and tremendous wit is what probably causes that!
@Li11ee - haha, that was just to qualify that online verbal sparring with jihadists is not conducive to making friends with them😹
@AuroraKadavra haha yes I did I saw you’re code on another conversation 🙈 and yes I noticed you were from Preston I’ve been there once I think 🤔. Grey and boring ... I can’t remember what Preston was like I would have been there when my dad was doing markets so a number of years ago and with regards to grey I think that’s just the UK in general now that winter has settled in with our usual rain. I didn’t even get a chance to go out properly yesterday because it was coming down so bad! When I added you I have 30 friends and then enough to send gifts to daily, I left my code for someone and I’m now nearing 100 🙈🤦🏽♀️ I can’t get through the list my gifts are sitting at empty (hoping to sort that today) and I’m a bit frazzled about what to do because the requests keep coming... need to find the post I put my code on and remove it maybe I dunno this 10 gift limit is now causing me big issues. 🥴
@HKR84 I have exactly the same issue. I left my code to help someone and am now drowning a bit. But I am going to just delete all but people I interact with as soon as the brilliant event is over, as that was the deal I made. Then I will change my code and just point people to the friend code section of the forum in future!
@Magpie31 it's good idea to change code, we need safe care to request friend ASAP. Anyway after event is over i change code now.
@Yohanes12 Sorry, I really don't understand your post. Are you saying we don't have a safe system? As I see it, we already have plenty of safety in the friend request feature. We have to accept the requests, there is no in-game communication, all personal information - even portrait - is protected and unviewable by others. The friend code itself is a safety feature as, when used as it is intended, it is something you exchange in person. People can only get it when you share, and then it is easily changed if you want to. Given all the safety features built in to the friending system, changing the code is simply a convenience, rather than a good idea for safety.
@Magpie31 yep that’s exactly what I did I’m just surprised that so many have added me from that one post 🙈 bit naive on my part I guess
Not necessarily naive. I have posted my friend code before and only had one or two invitations. I think the difference is that we have two evemts requiring multiple gifts to be given. I just feel bad that due to the flurry of requests, I can't open the gifts being sent. But giving them chance to send one is better than nothing.
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